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Occurring alone or as part of some syndrome, fusion-segmentation anomalies range from hemivertebra through cleft vertebrae to absence of a vertebral body. The embryology of these anomalies was presented in Chapter 1 (Figs. 1.2 and 1.3).
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Swischuk, L.E. (2002). Anomalies. In: Imaging of the Cervical Spine in Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0081-6_3
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